re: Top 15 most loyal college fanbases

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will give you that Florida has been down a little lately. That is the reason for dropping out of the top 5 on the list. But when you are one of the only teams that can boast about having sold out every home contest from 1979 until 2011. You have a loyal fan base. Now for the last couple years it is a problem every stadium in every sport is having. People don't have the money and would rather sit at home and watch.

I think it is pathetic personally but it is getting harder and harder to write that check every year.

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UF just suffers from the same things Texas and to a lesser extent, UGA, suffer from. Meaning, you have a big fan base, a large contingent of first generation students and fans due to transplants, and thus a pretty big bandwagon.

All three of those schools are a lot different now than in 1979. It's just part of being a big team in a big state that has a lot of outsiders coming in and latching on. Like the others, your fan base has now grown to where the "bandwagon" nature of some of the fan base is overcome by sheer numbers, but I give UF a lot more credit for selling out in the 80s than in the 2000s.